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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-2861: Other

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-2861: Other

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
12/06/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

A flaw was found in the 9p passthrough filesystem (9pfs) implementation in QEMU. The 9pfs server did not prohibit opening special files on the host side, potentially allowing a malicious client to escape from the exported 9p tree by creating and opening a device file in the shared folder.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu

References

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